Information on 1.21 Next week?

[Agoven]

Not trying to justify anything...

Anyways...this should be one of the last major system change patches. They have to get through all the nuts and bolts before they can really get down to content. 1.22 and 1.23 should start having more content. The roadmap doesn't even list patches before 2.0. I'm sure from 1.23 till 2.0 it'll all be story content.

Remember we got Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary and Tokyo Game Show which I suspect SE will use those two events to push out major things for FFXIV ushering in the coming of 2.0.

[buritoslicer]

...and so does this one.

Tell me Cichy, how is your sergeant gear coming along?

Are you ready with seals for 1.21 chocobo armor?

Just 1 Luminary so far?

Have you managed a Moogle speed kill yet?

Have you explored more than half of the atherites & camps in the world?

Have you killed over 50,000 monsters, or over 30 of the 46+ nm's?

Have you completed even a quarter of the faction challenges? How about 1000 regional leves? Perhaps local?

You've barely hit the tip of the iceberg, if you cant answer more than 1 or 2 of these.

The big issue with your list is that majority of them aren't fun to do.

However, it's a good idea to save up them seals for chocobo barding.

[buritoslicer]

I'm wondering when we will be getting the good news. Would be good to hear some type of word this week since I was eagerly looking forward to the end of February to arrive. I guess I have more time to go 7/7 on Mog weapons and netflix crafting because everything else isn't my cup of tea to accomplish.

1.21 please come asap! My excitement levels extreemly high :P

[Vackashken]

Thats crazy talk! What about all the lore we've had!

I apologize... the year and a half wait sometimes eats at my soul and I say crazy things!

Not trying to justify anything...

Anyways...this should be one of the last major system change patches. They have to get through all the nuts and bolts before they can really get down to content. 1.22 and 1.23 should start having more content. The roadmap doesn't even list patches before 2.0. I'm sure from 1.23 till 2.0 it'll all be story content.

Remember we got Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary and Tokyo Game Show which I suspect SE will use those two events to push out major things for FFXIV ushering in the coming of 2.0.

The fact of the matter is they handled this all wrong. People need to feel hype for this patch. They could have spent all this time releasing tidbits of teasers. They could have released a job video a week, 30 seconds long hyping said job. Or to stretch it out show a WS a week from various jobs (so as not to spoil them all). They could have released a bit of eye candy every so often to keep people excited. Their marketing is terrible. If this patch is so enormousness and grand then there is no reason -- whatsoever -- for them to have held their cards so close to their chest for this amount of time.

The reality is people are tired - which is 100 percent understandable regardless of how many droves of White Knights try to joust that fact down. They handled it wrong. As aforementioned if they have so much to bring to the table this time a slow build up of it, through various forms of information that is more tangible, is how it should have been handled. FFS, even a company that doesn't do MMOs gets it...

When ACM was delayed (Aliens: Colonial Marines) they said sorry guys, but check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=cMhpFpJSwgA

Now what did it do when people saw that video? They said, damn this sucks (that it was delayed) but got hyped up for the video and it started a lot of positive discussions cause they had something universally acceptable to jaw over. Eye candy.

[Avraym]

I apologize... the year and a half wait sometimes eats at my soul and I say crazy things!



The fact of the matter is they handled this all wrong. People need to feel hype for this patch. They could have spent all this time releasing tidbits of teasers. They could have released a job video a week, 30 seconds long hyping said job. Or to stretch it out show a WS a week from various jobs (so as not to spoil them all). They could have released a bit of eye candy every so often to keep people excited. Their marketing is terrible. If this patch is so enormousness and grand then there is no reason whatsoever - for them to have held their cards so close to their chest for this amount of time.

The reality is people are tired - which is 100 percent understandable regardless of how many droves of White Knights try to joust that fact down. They handled it wrong. As aforementioned if they have so much to bring to the table this time a slow build up of it, through various forms of information that is more tangible, is how it should have been handled. FFS, even a company that doesn't do MMOs gets it...

When ACM was delayed (Aliens: Colonial Marines) they said sorry guys, but check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=cMhpFpJSwgA

No what it did when people say that video? They said, damn this sucks (that it was delayed) but got hyped up for teh video and it started a lot of positive discussions cause they had something universally acceptable to jaw over. Eye candy.

Well said. I'd genuinely like to see someone even try and rebuttle that.

Somewhere. A white knight just died.

+1

[Agoven]

I'm curious...because it's a little tricky what SE has done. Server mergers on March 1st...

Let's say scenario goes like this...We know there are lots of people potentially waiting for this patch to come back. If a lot of people pay and become active again, how will SE handle merging 2 servers if suddenly this patch spurs a lot of returns? They might not have enough room to merge two servers.

I would suspect this patch would need to be released by the 28th so SE could sort out the server merger mess. If it's after the server mergers that this patch is released and peoples return to locked out servers and they can't join their friends that will be quite the interesting messy scenario.

CORRECTION: I guess I should fix my comment since server mergers aren't actually happening on the 1st of March. That whole server merging thing is a mess of confusion. So anyways this post is sorta moot sorry.

[Issachar]

Fun is a buzzword.

[Avraym]

I'm curious...because it's a little tricky what SE has done. Server mergers on March 1st...

Let's say scenario goes like this...We know there are lots of people potentially waiting for this patch to come back. If a lot of people pay and become active again, how will SE handle merging 2 servers if suddenly this patch spurs a lot of returns? They might not have enough room to merge two servers.

I would suspect this patch would need to be released by the 28th so SE could sort out the server merger mess. If it's after the server mergers that this patch is released and peoples return to locked out servers and they can't join their friends that will be quite the interesting messy scenario.

I would say they made room for returners in their calculations in relation to server merge size.

Everyone know's people who left were either waiting for 1.21 (Jobs) or 2.0 release.

To punish returning players would have to be a giant screw up. Although, their payment interface setup does just that.

[Agoven]

Well...if you want rebuttals that's pretty easy. I'm not even trying to white knighting anything...we're all anxious for new stuff...

Quite frankly anything anyone posts...SE could post a years worth of pictures, videos, spoilers...

And someone will find something to complain about it. There's also a large majority that don't post to these forums...that don't read the lodestone. There's a number that want to see things as they come to fruition in the game....

We should also know SE generally doesn't like spoilers...and you gotta have some respect that they've been as communicative as they have been. It's a new thing for SE...

On the official threads and Yoshida's posting he frequently types walls of text on the Japanese forums outlining many things to come.

[Vackashken]

Spoilers? Honestly, I can't be bothered to dignify that with a response...